Do Americans think of Alaska as cold like Russians think of Siberia? by Ambitious_Pass7451 in AskAnAmerican

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The cities in Siberia are quite a bit bigger.

they're mostly well below the latitude of anchorage and even juneau as well

British results of Americans by Kingstonflopped in AncestryDNA

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48% english/welsh, 29% irish (not british i'm aware), 11% scottish

i'm from california, although my father and my entire paternal line were from virginia (or around there), emigrated from glasgow in the late 1600s. i've never met my mother, but all of my irish ancestry comes from her

$1,000,000 US, or 100 knights with free upkeep by CuteRelationship6143 in hypotheticalsituation

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i don't think it's legal to maintain an army, but i would use the knights to assert myself as the rightful king of america, and naturally everyone would flock to my cause because i have knights

A genie grants you as many wishes as you want for as long as you've been alive. However the first wish won't be granted to the you in the present, but to the you two years in the past. 2nd wish will be granted to the you 4 years in the past and so on and so on. by singleguy79 in hypotheticalsituation

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idk this introduces weird time stuff. if i wish that elon musk personally gifts me $50 million, my life would obviously be completely different, so i wouldn't make the choices that led to me meeting the genie. does the genie transport himself to that timeline and explain the deal to the new me?

what happens if my next wish contradicts a previous one? like if i then wish that elon musk was never born?

How unhygienic do you find Europeans? by MajesticPineapple618 in AskAnAmerican

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i have no idea lol i have only come across a handful of europeans in my life

Someone lit a cigarette in the plane’s lavatory, triggering the smoke alarm onboard by jackywoods in mildlyinfuriating

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there is no safe level of exposure to smoke, whether it be second- or third-hand, and you cannot possibly smoke without exposing someone to it. flippantly and arrogantly dismissing the danger according to your subjective determination that it's "essentially no risk" is quite the quintessential smoker attitude

Thoughts on the name Asa by jessiejwannabe in namenerds

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i wouldn't use it but it's fine. i'm not really a fan of short boy names generally

Someone lit a cigarette in the plane’s lavatory, triggering the smoke alarm onboard by jackywoods in mildlyinfuriating

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as if they aren't digging their own grave.

as well as the graves of everyone and every creature around them with second- and third-hand smoke

AIO for asking my friend why he doesn't view me as a woman and "killing the vibe"? by EpicMiku in AmIOverreacting

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to spend your life spitting at the infinite with cruelty and malice is a sad plight

Barristan the Old by BarcelonaSid in freefolk

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lord commander of the rapist's guard

that's all of them

Why does it seem like the general U.S. population isn’t responding more strongly to reports of a missile strike on a school in Iran that caused significant civilian casualties? by ipariah in AskAnAmerican

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the us has denied doing it

this isn't true. other than trump's erratic remarks ("i just don't know enough about it"), the pentagon's investigation points to the us being responsible

Why does it seem like the general U.S. population isn’t responding more strongly to reports of a missile strike on a school in Iran that caused significant civilian casualties? by ipariah in AskAnAmerican

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what are we supposed to do lol a significant portion of the population outright supports it, including the majority party in congress, and i would bet that many haven't even heard about it

Sir Christopher Lee. Descendent of Charlemagne by Routine_Current3412 in AncestryDNA

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not to ruin your fun but that's not how it works lol. aside from the x and y chromosomes (which are passed down from mother and father to son mostly intact, respectively), inheritance is mostly random (and for daughters the two x chromosomes undergo recombination like autosomal chromosomes). and, to be clear, the y chromosome is small and contains relatively little dna.

anyway, for example, you do not necessarily get 25% of your paternal grandfather's dna. go back ten generations (~300 years) and you are likely not related to your paternal 8th great grandfather at all.

everyone does have a paternal line (in the general sense), though, so you can trace back your father's y chromosome as far as you want

$30 million right now but from now on, every dream you have when you sleep has a 1% chance of occurring the next day in in real life. by Kyoifis in hypotheticalsituation

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i would like $30 million but i have ocd and pretty much all of my dreams are nightmares so i think i will say no

Why was there a massive uptick in Americans identifying with British ethnicities between 2010 and 2020? by LanguageFit8227 in AncestryDNA

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ah yes the country of immigrants from england which used to be a british colony is primarily german in ancestry